2023 Department of Pediatrics Academic Annual Report

• Senior Talks: Every graduating resident (PGY- 3 Pediatric and PGY- 4 MedPeds and Peds/Genetics) presents a 30-minute evidence-based medicine topic at a Resident Noon Conference throughout the year. Below are the topics that were presented in 2022–2023: o Dads: Bad Jokes, Good Outcomes o Following the Leader: A Guide for When It’s Someone Else’s Turn o Back to the Present: The Roots and Risks of Race-Based Medicine o Let’s Rash It Out: The Importance of Medical Resources Portraying Skin Pathology on a Variety of Complexions o Medicine’s Top 10 Greatest Moments o A Hearty Review on the Development and Utilization of the Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screen o Pediatric Disaster Medicine o Pump, Pump, Pump It Up: General Pumping Knowledge for the General Pediatrician o Cancer Immunotherapy: A Novel Way to Treat Cancer o Music in Medicine o The Unseen Weight of Childhood Obesity o Secondary Trauma, Sleep Deprivation and Compassion Fatigue in Residency o Laughter Is the Best Medicine o How to Save a Life: Perfectionism, Imposter Syndrome and Mental Health in Medicine o Are you Positive It’s Negative? How to Approach Negative Exome and Genome Sequencing o Mountain Heights to Ocean Depths: Medicine Wherever You Are o The Many Roles of Residents: Residents As Teachers o The Lasting Legacy of Redlining in Birmingham: How Policy of the Past Built Health Inequities Today o Midnight Moments o Child Life: How to Play with Purpose o Man’s Best Friend: An Exploration of the Benefits of Pets on Pediatric Health o Feeding America’s Children: Food Insecurity, Its Impact on Pediatric Health and What Pediatricians Can Do to Help o Clinical Reasoning and Cognitive Debiasing—Beyond Metacognition o Practice What We Preach: Health Literacy and Alabama o Gen Peds for the Subspecialists’ Perspective • Quality-Improvement Projects: Every resident must participate in a QI project during their residency. They are able to join projects previously started by past residents or create a new project, depending on their interests. Below are the resident QI projects during 2022–2023: o Improving Physician Patient Safety Reporting o Establishing a Morbidity & Mortality Conference in the UAB Pediatric Residency Program o Teaching High-Value Care in Pediatrics o Firearm Safety in PCC o Inpatient Interventions for Improved Infant Safe Sleep o Improving Timely Feedback from Housestaff to Medical Students o Increasing Prescriptions for Rescue Therapy for Patients 2 years or older with Epilepsy o Enhanced Provider Communication and Facilitated Workflow to Reduce Excessive Fluid Accumulation in Extremely Low Birthweight Infants o Timing of Lactation Trays o SWU Are You? Increasing Standardization of SWU Admissions at Children’s of Alabama o Reducing Time to Antibiotic Administration for High-Risk Patients o Health Equity Scholars—Food Insecurity Screening of Hospitalized Patients o PCC Teen Vaccine Adherence o MedPeds Mental Health o Standardization of ED Discharge Instructions to Improve Patient and Family Education and Decrease Rates of Patient Return for the Same Chief Complaint within 24–48 hours o Decreasing Hypothermia on Admission o The Role of Physical Activity in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention o Can I Give You Some Feedback? Strategies to Become a Feedback Expert o Considerations for Patients with Down Syndrome! o Trauma Informed Care

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